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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

compensation, other than their necessary expenses, board, etc.
whilst on official business.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on and after its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 486.
AN ACT for incorporating the Baltimore Law School.

Baltimore
Law School.
Incorporated.
Trustees
appointed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a school of law by the name of the Baltimore Law
School be and is hereby established in Baltimore City, and
that Bernard C. Steiner, Howard Bryant, Wm. F. Campbell,
Ralph Robinson and Edgar Allen Poe be and they are hereby
appointed and constituted trustees of the said law school.

How vacancy
filled.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any of the
trustees above named or their successors shall die, resign,
decline serving, be removed for cause or remove out of this
State, a quorum of said trustees duly assembled shall pro-
ceed by a new election to fill such vacancy.

Rights, powers
and privileges.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid trustees and
their successors by the same name shall be able and capable
in law to purchase, have, hold and enjoy to them and their
successors in fee, or for any less estate, any lands, tenements
or other hereditaments within this State by gift, grant, bar-
gain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment devise, bequest, release or
confirmation of any person or persons, bodies politic or cor-
porate, capable to make the same, and such lands, tenements
or other hereditaments or any less estate, rights or interest of
and in the same at their pleasure, to grant, alien, sell and
transfer in such manner and form as they shall think meet
and convenient for the furtherance of the said school, and also
that they may take and receive any sum or sums of money
and any kind, manner or portion of goods and chattels that
shall be given, devised, bequeathed or sold to them by any
person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make
a gift or sale thereof, and to employ the same toward main-
taining the said school in such manner as they shall judge
most necessary and convenient for the instruction, education
and improvement of scholars in the study of the law.

Trustees may
sue and be
sued, etc.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees and their suc-
cessors shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court or courts, before any judge, justices
or judges within this State and elsewhere in all and all man-